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Summary: You better believe!
Review: This book is excellent. Easy to read, easy to follow, easy to enjoy. Even though I'm an extremely picky eater, I was able to lose 17 lbs., and my goal was 15. Denise is right, once you train yourself to do something, it's hard to go back. My stomach used to be able to hold an entire bowl of pasta from my favorite restaurant, but now I can only eat about 1/3 (all I really need antway!). Everyone should have this book.
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Summary: Common sense approach to losing weight without straving !
Review: This is the book for those of us who are carrying a bit extra weight. I bought the book on my 3 year old's birthday and have already lost 4 lbs. This is an easy plan to live by, not just diet. I love the cracker jacks for snacks and the triscuits with cream cheese. I always thought snacks had to be celery sticks or carrots! The meals are simple to prepare and the dinners are not always family adaptable so I substitute a bit. Like another reviewer, I found the diet initially expensive to start but worth it. I think I will actually achieve my goal after 3 years of trying all kinds of other diets that I only could stick to for a day!
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Summary: One of the best books yet!!!!!!
Review: This review is mainly to tell you what the others (teacherwhocares & T.M.) didn't tell you. First off, I thought that this book was very helpful with tring to increase my recipe library and to also increase what I know about Fitness & Nutrition and the basics about exercises. I found this book to be very helpful!The others that I meantioned earlier (teacherwhocares & T.M.)in this review must have been looking for some negetive things of some sort, or they just wanted to 'pick' on her book for whatever reason. First off, the shopping list the is in week 1, you WILL use all of the things that are on the grocery list unless you decide to discontinue to use it in the middle of the week. Second, the typical day that Denise Austin is talking about in the book is HER TYPICAL DAY! Shoot, if everybody was a fitness personality, buiness woman, wife, mother of two, and a avid fitness expert it would look kind of silly for her to just SIT AROUND THE HOUSE AND EAT BON-BONS ALL DAY! She does all those exercises to help give her energy throughout the day and if the person who wrote the review would at least TRY those exercises that Denise recommends then she/he would find them to probably be helpful. I don't exercise for "2 obessive hours a day" and I also do SOME of the 'fidgetsizing' that Denise talks about in her book everyday and it really works! I think that people who are CLOSED MINDED shouldn't ever think about picking up this book, because that will mean more 'bad reviews' that shouldn't even be here! If you are serious about fitness and nutrition and are flexible enough to try new foods, then this book is worth EVERY PENNY!!!!!!!!!
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Summary: One of the best books yet!!!!!!
Review: This review is mainly to tell you what the others (teacherwhocares & T.M.) didn't tell you. First off, I thought that this book was very helpful with tring to increase my recipe library and to also increase what I know about Fitness & Nutrition and the basics about exercises. I found this book to be very helpful! The others that I meantioned earlier (teacherwhocares & T.M.)in this review must have been looking for some negetive things of some sort, or they just wanted to 'pick' on her book for whatever reason. First off, the shopping list the is in week 1, you WILL use all of the things that are on the grocery list unless you decide to discontinue to use it in the middle of the week. Second, the typical day that Denise Austin is talking about in the book is HER TYPICAL DAY! Shoot, if everybody was a fitness personality, buiness woman, wife, mother of two, and a avid fitness expert it would look kind of silly for her to just SIT AROUND THE HOUSE AND EAT BON-BONS ALL DAY! She does all those exercises to help give her energy throughout the day and if the person who wrote the review would at least TRY those exercises that Denise recommends then she/he would find them to probably be helpful. I don't exercise for "2 obessive hours a day" and I also do SOME of the 'fidgetsizing' that Denise talks about in her book everyday and it really works! I think that people who are CLOSED MINDED shouldn't ever think about picking up this book, because that will mean more 'bad reviews' that shouldn't even be here! If you are serious about fitness and nutrition and are flexible enough to try new foods, then this book is worth EVERY PENNY!!!!!!!!!
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Summary: My first copy is worn out -- coming back for a second
Review: We started this program 6-10-00 and lost 38 lbs at low point of 3-10-01. As of 12-08-01, I have given back 7 lbs but am still down 31 lbs. This program works. One positive not mentioned in other reviews is that the the meal plan rationalizes grocery shopping. Prior to this meal plan, my wife spent time figuring out what to prepare and went to the grocery store nearly daily and sometimes more than once in a single day. With Denise's plan, she does the main shopping once a week. I prepare the grocery list. The grocery list is sorted by aisles in the store, an extra bit of work to make up but more than justified by the overall time saving. There is some time (and likely even monetary) savings in the grocery shopping component of your life with this plan. Most of the menus require preparation, on the order of 2 hours per day. For example, even a trivial breakfast of strawberrys and yogurt requires washing and cutting up strawberrys. The food is generally good and varied. It is really the meal plan that has the highest time commitment impact, not the exercises.
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Summary: My first copy is worn out -- coming back for a second
Review: We started this program 6-10-00 and lost 38 lbs at low point of 3-10-01. As of 12-08-01, I have given back 7 lbs but am still down 31 lbs. This program works. One positive not mentioned in other reviews is that the the meal plan rationalizes grocery shopping. Prior to this meal plan, my wife spent time figuring out what to prepare and went to the grocery store nearly daily and sometimes more than once in a single day. With Denise's plan, she does the main shopping once a week. I prepare the grocery list. The grocery list is sorted by aisles in the store, an extra bit of work to make up but more than justified by the overall time saving. There is some time (and likely even monetary) savings in the grocery shopping component of your life with this plan. Most of the menus require preparation, on the order of 2 hours per day. For example, even a trivial breakfast of strawberrys and yogurt requires washing and cutting up strawberrys. The food is generally good and varied. It is really the meal plan that has the highest time commitment impact, not the exercises.
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Summary: Common sense approach to losing weight without straving !
Review: Yes, I knew that this book would not tell me anything new. I've gone the gamut in books very similar to this one and, even knowing that there would be no oracles, I still bought it. I wanted a no-brainer program for losing ten pounds. So, I have no one to blame but myself that I wasted $24. It's not a bad book (especially if didn't already own 3-4 just like it). My main criticism is with her diet. While variety is good, she calls for too many specialty food items that you must buy. I didn't buy everything on the first week's shopping list and I spent $100.00. Do you really need five different kinds of bread (bagels, pita, tortillas, english muffins, whole wheat) to lose weight? What the heck is a haricort verte....a green bean? How often do you need capers? She also has you buy food the first week that isn't called for in her first week's recipes. Will it work? Probably. The calorie intake is so (1,500 calories)low that there's no way you won't lose weight on if you follow both the diet and the exercise program strictly. So, if you choose to follow her prescription, scan the recipes and the shopping list carefully. You may save yourself quite a bit of money if you're smart with substitution.
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Summary: There really IS nothing new under the sun...
Review: Yes, I knew that this book would not tell me anything new. I've gone the gamut in books very similar to this one and, even knowing that there would be no oracles, I still bought it. I wanted a no-brainer program for losing ten pounds. So, I have no one to blame but myself that I wasted $24. It's not a bad book (especially if didn't already own 3-4 just like it). My main criticism is with her diet. While variety is good, she calls for too many specialty food items that you must buy. I didn't buy everything on the first week's shopping list and I spent $100.00. Do you really need five different kinds of bread (bagels, pita, tortillas, english muffins, whole wheat) to lose weight? What the heck is a haricort verte....a green bean? How often do you need capers? She also has you buy food the first week that isn't called for in her first week's recipes. Will it work? Probably. The calorie intake is so (1,500 calories)low that there's no way you won't lose weight on if you follow both the diet and the exercise program strictly. So, if you choose to follow her prescription, scan the recipes and the shopping list carefully. You may save yourself quite a bit of money if you're smart with substitution.
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